–leave scores of households without phone service

TELECOMMUNICATION service in Lamaha Park, East La Penitence, has been temporarily disrupted, leaving more than 100 households out of service for an undetermined period.Residents said that the service would have been disrupted somewhere around 19:00 hrs. Monday since some recalled using the their phones as late as 16:30hrs. and when they attempted dialing around 19:00 they found that the lines were down.
While word has gone out that vagrants have cut and stolen the transmission cables, the word coming from the Customer Services Department is that the service has been disrupted as a result of cable damage and technicians have been deployed to carry out related checks.
The first team of technicians was deployed to conduct checks around 10:00 hrs yesterday but management could not give a commitment as to how soon the service would be restored.

(Shirley Thomas)